Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-07-29
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
NOTES FROM ALL THE WORLD
FOR BUSY READERS.
GREAT EXCITEMENT.

The excitement caused by the introduction
Of the Glen bill in the Georgia legislature is
unabated and grows every day. The bill pro
vides for the punishment of any teacher who
instructs white and colofcd children in the
same institution. Glen says the sentiment of
the people OF Georgia is strongly in favor of
the bill, but he fears opposition from some
Of the politicians, who will oppo:e the bill
in order 10 avoid censure or criticism from the
north. The Negroes are loud in their protests
against the measure. Indignation meetings
have been largely attended, and resolution.
were drafted showing the sense Of the meet
inS. a memorial tothe Legislature was started
and signed by over 500 colored citizens. This
memorial asked the legislature not to allow
the passage Of the bill, asserting that it is OPP
presslve, unjust and unconstitutional.
WONDERFUL INVENTION.
Harvey &. Cox, a young Ohio electrician,
claims TO have invented 4 trumpet, to be used
for telephoning at sea. The invention is the
outgrowth Of his discovery of the great DIS
tance an echo or reverberation will carry, and
the discovery that speaking trumpets, if made
| 10 give the same fundamental note, could vi
bratc and produce the same phenomena,
known in acoustics as sympathy. With this
trumpet a conversation in an ordinary tone of
voice was carried on between persons four and
one-iourth miles apart. People sitting iu their
windows, or on their porches, a mile away,
conversing in an ordinary tone could be dis
tinctly heard. BY listening 10 the whistle of
train and tracing ii beyond stations, the in
strument was found to possess a well-defined
range Of twenty six miles.
A MENAGERIE WRECKED.
The breaking of an axle on one Of the stock
cars of John Robinson's circus at Virginia city
resulted in the wrccking Of four cars. The
''sacred COW" was tossed on top of one Of the
cars, AMI one of the large elephants was over
turnd and had its leg broken. The beast
shrieked with pain and terror, and refused to
allow It's keeper TO approach, 1t upset a fiat
car with its trunk. The commotion after the
smashup was indie scrlbable. Lions roared,
Boa serpents Kissed, sacred cattle beloved,
monkeys chartered, tigers growled and hyenas
howed. The din and uproar reused ranchers
from their slumber for miles around. The
wounded elephant was finally side-tracked
with its keeper, the animals quoted down, and
the train moved on towards Reno
| ADVANCE IN TOBACCO
Information was received in San Francisco
from the east on the 10th by leading tobacco
importing house that the crop of leaf in Viz
ginia wonld be almost a failure this season.
Excessive heat has been the cause of this dis,
aster simultaneously with the news, DIS
patch came TO hand that in Sumatra tobacco
for export would also be short. As soon as
tho intelligence became known, dealers and
jobbers in Plug and fine cut weed raised the
plicc cents pound all around, while Su-
matra leaf holders asked for their goods an
enhanced value of 90 cents a pound. The
; stock of Sumatra leaf in first hands is stated
to be very small, barely sufficient for six months
local consumption.
ARREST OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER.
Last Saturday Sheriff Smith, of Linn county
received an executive warrant, issued by Gov
Pennoycr. on requisition Of Gov. Oglesby, 0
Illinois, for the arrest Of Andrew Hamilton
alias Dick Harcraton, for a murder committed
in Pike county, Illinois, in 1875. Harcrator
formerly resided in Albany, but of late ha
been in Eastern Oregon Deputy Sherif
George Humphrey received telegram from
Sheriff Smith Monday at Baker city, stating
a that he had arrested the man wanted at tha
place this morning, where he will hold him
/, prisoner until the arrival of Sheriff WIndmiller
n of Pike county, Illinois: